Pietro Maletti

Pietro Maletti (24 May 1880-9 December 1940) was a Major-General of the Royal Italian Army during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and World War II.

Biography
Pietro Maletti was born on 24 May 1880 in Castiglione della Stiviere, Italy, and he graduated from the Modena Military Academy in 1904. Maletti served in World War I until August 1917, when he was dispatched to Libya to put down the Senussi rebellion. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and he returned to Italy only in 1934. Maletti was sent to Italian Somaliland in January 1935 as a Brigadier-General when the Second Italo-Abyssinian War started, and in May 1938 he was made a Major-General. Maletti led an armored group during Operation Compass in World War II during the Italian invasion of Egypt, and Maletti was killed-in-action at Nibeiwa during the British counterattack against the Italians.